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Earl fizzles as it sweeps through Maritime CanadaReuters | 04 Sep 2010HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) - Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.
Climate Change Hurricane Earl slowly weakening on northward trekReuters | 03 Sep 2010HYANNIS, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Earl churned toward the Massachusetts coast on Friday, en route to Canada's Maritime provinces, after slapping North Carolina with heavy wind and rain but causing less damage than feared.
Canada | Extreme Weather Interior chief Salazar voices doubt on Arctic drillingReuters | 03 Sep 2010ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Friday he cannot predict whether Royal Dutch Shell, which has invested $3.5 billion in an offshore Arctic oil-development program, will be allowed to drill the five wells it plans next year in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
United States | Industry Amazon may be headed for another bad droughtReuters | 03 Sep 2010LIMA (Reuters) - Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.
Peru | Extreme Weather Hurricane Earl closes in on East CoastReuters | 02 Sep 2010HATTERAS ISLAND, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Earl began to strafe North Carolina's barrier islands with dangerous surf and winds on Thursday as it spun parallel to the U.S. East Coast on a northward trek toward New England and Canada.
United States | Extreme Weather Fuel tanker runs aground in Canadian ArcticReuters | 02 Sep 2010CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A fuel tanker loaded with 9 million liters (2.4 million gallons) of diesel fuel has run aground in Canada's Far North but none of the fuel has spilled, the Canadian Coast Guard said on Thursday.
Canada | Disasters Extensive relict coral reef found in southern PacificScienceDaily.com | 01 Sep 2010Coral reefs are sensitive to climate change and track sea level. New observations show that an extensive coral reef existed in the southern Pacific Ocean thousands of years ago. Researchers used multi-beam sonar, coring, and dating to examine a relict reef discovered in water about 20-25 meters (65-82 feet) deep around Lord Howe Island in the southern Pacific Ocean.
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